With respect to Bill Simmons, I am going to do a running blog of tonight's American Idol men's performances.
01 - 8:05p - Blake Lewis - All Mixed Up by 311 (Beat-Boxer)
Judges loved it because they didn't know the song. I personally hate 311 and I still think it was a poor imitation. He earned big cred in the first week with his Keane performance, but he's wearing thin with me. Seeing the recap, this was the worst of the night.
02 - 8:10p - Sanjaya Malakar - Waiting on the World to Change - John Mayer (Indian Boy)
Awful. Judges hated it. I hate it. Dialidol has him 3rd, which can only mean that a) a lot of Indian people are voting for him; or b) vote for the worst has a secret second site that has told millions to vote for Sanjaya.
03 - 8:16p - Sundance Head - Jeremy - Pearl Jam (Fat Goatee Kid)
There are probably five songs in the Pantheon of perfect rock songs, and Sundance tried to tackle one. It isn't that he did a bad job, though he completely missed the important "TRRRRRRRYYYYY to remember....TRRRRRRYYYYYYY to erase this....from the blackBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOARD' segment that makes the song what it is. He just did a song that I can replay in my head note-for-note Eddie Vedder style in my head. And he didn't beat Eddie Vedder. This is the kind of thing that Chris Daughtry nailed last year.
04 - 8:25p - Chris Richardson - Tonight I Want to Cry - Keith Urban (Timberlake)
I didn't know the song, so I'm a bit biased. It wasn't good or bad, and it wasn't memorable either. Bad combo when you need people to call for you.
This guy earned major points with me in Week 1, but his act is growing stale.
05 - 8:32p - Jared Cotter - If You Really Love Me - Steve Wonder (Lighter Taye Diggs)
So they go from broken NBA dreams to handsome black man in an Argyle sweater? It wasn't good. It was Stevie, which we all know is now an Idol disaster. Stevie's songs are always in minor keys, which make them a bitch to sing for a GOOD singer. This guy isn't even a good singer.
06 - 8:40p - Brandon Rogers - I Just Want to Celebrate - Rare Earth (Short Fro)
I don't like this guy, but it was honestly one of the best three performances of the night. In a performance set where everyone sucked in their own way, he's the only one I could see most of America picking up the phone and voting for.
07 - 8:46p - Phil Stacey - I Need You - Leann Rimes (Baldy)
I personally like the Navy boy with the bald head, but he's gone. The song is, and always has been, boring. He already was one of the least charismatic contestants. I can't imagine he survives Thursday.
08 - 8:53p - Chris Sligh - Wanna Be Loved - DC Talk (Whitey Fro)
Ok, mystery solved. Fat boy, from the south, hot wife, sings songs we don't know. He's a Jesus Freak. DC Talk is a wildly successful Christian Rock band that never gets a second of play on regular radio (like, say, Creed or Jars of Clay). I did a little research. Week 1: Typical by Mute Math. Also a Christian Rock band. Week 2 was a "folk" singer from Maine. I'm on to this Carrie Underwood wannabe.
Overall, the show is the worst overall series of performances that I can recall. I think Baldy Phil Stacey is the only surefire goner. After that, I think the top three performers were, not in order, Jared Cotter, Brandon Rogers, and Chris Sligh, though I think Sundance will get enough votes for sure because he picked a very popular song. That leaves Sanjaya, Chris Richardson, and Blake Lewis. As much as I disliked all three performances, they have been top vote-getters the first two weeks.
OFFICIAL PREDICTION: Phil Stacey, and, in a shocker, Blake Lewis are leaving us this week.
March 6, 2007
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I heard DC Talk on XM today. And I swear it was the 90s channel.
Didn't you see Spellbound where the one Indian kid's dad paid a million people in India to pray for the kid to do well in the spelling bee? I think we now know how Sanjaya keeps getting through.
I couldn't believe neither Paula or Randy knew "All Mixed Up." It's not like that was some obscure song, it hit #4 on the Modern Rock charts and #36 on the Hot 100 in 1996 (thanks Wikipedia). I mean, it was a huge song 10 years ago!
On DC Talk, I read the Wikipedia entry to refresh my memory. I had no idea they started as a hip-hop group and then completely reinvented themselves as a "rock" group in the mid-1990s.
As for 311, I was shocked too. I feel like he wouldn't have gotten the same praise if the judges had known the original, and I think voters may have been more turned off than the judges know. We'll see if being a good-looking guy is enough to save him, but it certainly hasn't been enough in past seasons.
DialIdol isn't clear-cut, but the bottom three using their prediction model are Phil Stacey, Sundance, and Jared Cotter.
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